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Rosa Parks: Pine Level
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Rosa Parks' childhood brought her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. After her parents separated, Rosa's mother moved the family to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her parents, Rose and Sylvester Edwards, on their farm. Both her grandparents were former slaves and strong advocates for racial equality. In one experience, Rosa's grandfather stood in front of their house with a shotgun while Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street. The city of Pine Level, Alabama had a new school building and bus transportation for white students while African American students walked to the one-room schoolhouse, often lacking desks and adequate school supplies.
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Rosa Louise McCauley was born on the 4th of February, 1913 to James McCauley (a carpenter) and Leona Edwards (a teacher). When her parents separated, she and her younger brother Sylvester, moved with their mother to their grandmother’s farm in Pine Level, Alabama. Homeschooled till she was eleven, Rosa moved on to the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for her secondary education. However, she had to drop out subsequently, as she had to care for her sick grandmother and then her mother.
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Born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Parks was the first child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley; her brother Sylvester was born in 1915. The family later moved to Pine Level, Alabama, where Rosa grew up attending rural schools.
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Born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Louise McCauley was the eldest of two children born to James and Leona McCauley. In 1915, when her parents separated, Louise took Rosa and Sylvester, her younger brother, to live with family in Pine Level, Alabama. Following the separation, Rosa rarely heard from her father.
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Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to James and Leona McCauley. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a school teacher. At the age of two she moved, with her mother and younger brother Sylvester, to her grandparent's farm in Pine Level, Alabama.
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Throughout her life, Rosa had seen the segregation between the white and the black people – the life of those times was marked by such color oriented discrimination on a daily basis on every level of existence. She had seen it happen in schools and colleges, in the workplace and even in the public transport.
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